Chris Raschka Quotes

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.